Wolfgang Maier wrote: > On 09/17/2014 11:45 AM, Peter Otten wrote: >> Wolfgang Maier wrote: >> >>> since a few days, when I select Help -> Python Docs from the IDLE menu, >>> the link to the documentation that it tries to open in my browser isn't >>> working anymore. >>> The URL IDLE uses (copied from the browser address bar) is : >>> docs.python.org/3.4 >>> and you have to add a terminal slash for it to work. >>> Now I don't know why it stopped working >>> (browser update, change on the python docs server, others? >>> I'm running idle-python3.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 and Firefox 32.0), >>> but a possible fix may be to simply make IDLE add the slash. >>> >>> Is there anyone else experiencing the same problem ? >> >> I have a similar configuration (Linux Mint 17 which is based on Ubuntu >> 14.04) and I cannot reproduce the problem. >> > > Hmm, what happens if you just copy/paste > > docs.python.org/3.4 > > into your browser ?
Works without problem. > Looks like some browsers (like the Ubuntu standard > browser) automatically add the trailing slash and others (like my > Firefox 32.0) don't. The webpage redirects twice: $ curl --head http://docs.python.org/3.4 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently ... Location: https://docs.python.org/3.4 ... $ curl --head https://docs.python.org/3.4 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently ... Location: https://docs.python.org/3.4/ ... $ curl --head https://docs.python.org/3.4/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK ... When in firefox' about:config I set network.http.redirection-limit 1 (the original value is 20 over here) I get an "Umleitungsfehler" (redirection error in german). Maybe you should have a look at this setting. If that's not the cause -- is there any error message that firefox displays when you enter docs.python.org/3.4 ? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
